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Ancient World, up to 500 CE
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Pre-Columbian America, 1-1492
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Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923
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Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
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New World Exploration and Colonial Period, 1492-1650
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Spanish Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1650
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British Colonial Era, 1497-1981
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Panfilo de Narvaez Expedition, 1528-1536
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Hernando de Soto Expedition, FL, 1537-1543
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Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542
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English Settlement of North America, 1600-1776
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Samuel Champlain Expedition, 1603
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Jamestown Colony Established, VA, 1607
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French Settlement of North America, 1608-1780
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Dutch Settlement of North America, 1609-1674
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French and Algonquins Battle Iroquois, 1609
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Henry Hudson Expedition, 1609
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Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth Rock, 1620
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Signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620
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Voyage of the Mayflower, 1620
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Powhatan Uprising, Jamestown, VA colony, 1622
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English take possession of Quebec City, 1629
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Pequot War, 1636-1637
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Battle of Mystic, CT, 1637
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French and Iroquois Wars, 1642-1698
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Navigation Acts, 1651-1767
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Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652
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Pavonia Raid, NJ, 1655
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New Amsterdam becomes New York, 1664
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Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1664-1667
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Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672-1674
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King Philip's War, 1675-1676
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Bacon's Rebellion, 1676
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King William's War, 1689-1697
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Frontenac's Onondaga Campaign, 1696
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Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713
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Father Rasle's War, 1721-1725
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King George's War, 1744-1748
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French and Indian War, 1754-1763
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Braddock's Expedition, 1755
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Seven Years War, 1756-1763
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Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763
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Pre-Revolutionary America, 1763-1776
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Stamp Act, 1765-1766
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Boston Massacre, MA, 1770
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Boston Tea Party, MA, 1773
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American Revolution, 1775-1783
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Battle of Bunker Hill, MA, 1775
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Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, 1775
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Battle of Lexington and Concord, MA, 1775
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Second Continental Congress Meets, 1775
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Siege of Boston, 1775-1776
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Battle Of Long Island, NY, 1776
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Battle of Trenton, NJ, 1776
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Declaration of Independence signed, 1776
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British invade Philadelphia, PA, 1777
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Saratoga Campaign, NY, 1777
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Surrender at Saratoga, NY, 1777
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Battle of Stony Point, NY, 1779
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Battle of Eutaw Springs, SC, 1781
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Battle of Yorktown, VA, 1781
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Surrender at Yorktown, VA, 1781
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Post-Revolutionary America, 1784-1820
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Constitution signed, U.S., 1787
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Philadelphia Convention, 1787
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French Revolution, 1789-1799
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Miami Indian Wars, 1790-1795
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Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804
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Jay's Treaty, London, England, 1794
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Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
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George Washington dies, 1799
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Ireland General History, 1800-
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Mexico General History, 1800-
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Barbary Coast Wars, 1801-1815
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Indian Removal, 1801-1858
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Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806
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Louisiana Purchase, 1803
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Embargo Act, U.S., 1807
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Westward Expansion, 1807-1912
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Battle of Tippecanoe, IN, 1811
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War of 1812, 1812-1815
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Battle of New Orleans, LA, 1815
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Seminole Wars, 1817-1858
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Antebellum America, 1820-1860
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Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821
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Indian Wars of the West, 1823-1898
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Monroe Doctrine, 1823
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John Quincy Adams elected President of U.S., 1825
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Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831
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Black Hawk War, 1832
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Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833
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President Andrew Jackson re-elected, 1832
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Amistad Case, 1841
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James Knox Polk elected President of U.S., 1844
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Annexation of Texas, 1845
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Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1850
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Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
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Mormon Pioneer Trail, 1846
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Oregon Treaty, 1846
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Mormon Settlement at Great Salt Lake, 1847
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Whitman Mission Massacre, WA, 1847
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Cayuse War, 1848-1855
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico, 1848
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Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920
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Zachary Taylor elected President of U.S., 1848
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California Gold Rush, 1849
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., 1850
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Gadsden Treaty with Mexico, 1853
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Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859
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Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted, U.S., 1854
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James Buchanan elected President of U.S., 1856
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Pottawatomie Massacre, 1856
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Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, 1856
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Dred Scott Decision, 1857
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Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
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Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, 1859
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John Brown's execution, Charleston, WV, 1859
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Abraham Lincoln elected President of U.S., 1860
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Pauite War, 1860
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South Carolina secedes, 1860
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Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the U.S., 1861
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Apache Wars, 1861-1886
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Battle of Fort Sumter, SC, 1861-1864
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First Battle of Bull Run, VA, 1861
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French intervention in Mexico, 1861-1867
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U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
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Battle at Hampton Roads, VA, 1862
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Battle of Antietam, MD, 1862
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Battle of Fort Donelson, TN, 1862
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Battle of Fredericksburg, VA, 1862
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Battle of Middle Creek, KY, 1862
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Battle of Pea Ridge, AR, 1862
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Battle of Perryville, KY, 1862
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Battle of Shiloh, TN, 1862
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Battle of Stones River, TN, 1862
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Battle of Williamsburg, VA, 1862
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Dakota War of 1862, 1862
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Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., 1862
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Homestead Act, 1862
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Legal Tender Act, 1862
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Second Battle of Bull Run, VA, 1862
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Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, 1863
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Battle of Chattanooga, TN, 1863
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Battle of Chickamauga, GA, 1863
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Battle of Gettysburg, PA, 1863
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Draft Riots, New York, NY, 1863
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German Reunification, 1863-1871
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Port Hudson, LA, 1863
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Siege of Vicksburg, 1863
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Atlanta Campaign, GA, 1864
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Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, 1864
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Battle of Spotsylvania, VA, 1864
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Battle of the Wilderness, VA, 1864
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Cheyenne-Arapaho War, 1864-1865
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Fall of Atlanta, GA, 1864
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Sand Creek Massacre, CO, 1864
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Sherman occupies Savannah, GA, 1864
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Sherman's March to the Sea, GA, 1864
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Siege of Atlanta, GA, 1864
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Siege of Petersburg, VA, 1864-1865
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Abraham Lincoln Assassinated, Washington, DC, 1865
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Fall of Richmond and Petersburg, VA, 1865
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Freedmen's Bureau Established, 1865-1866
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Jefferson Davis arrested, 1865
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Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA, 1865
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Thirteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., 1865
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Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, 1866-1869
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Red Cloud's War, 1866-1868
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Alaska Purchase, 1867
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Comanche Campaign, 1867-1875
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Kidder Massacre, 1867
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Andrew Johnson Impeachment, 1868
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Battle of Beecher's Island, CO, 1868
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Battle on the Washita, Washita River, 1868
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Fort Laramie Treaty between the U.S. and Sioux, 1868
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Fourteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., 1868
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Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878
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Fifteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., 1870
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Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
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Boss Tweed Indicted for Fraud, NY, 1871-1873
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Chicago Fire, 1871
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Paris Commune, 1871
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Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872
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Modoc War, 1872-1873
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Panic of 1873, 1873
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Poland Committee Investigation, 1873
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Temperance Movement, 1873-1933
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Virginius Affair, 1873-1875
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Potter Law, 1874
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Red River War, 1874-1875
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American Centennial, 1876
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Battle at Slim Buttes, SD, 1876
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Battle of Little Bighorn, MT, 1876
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Battle of the Rosebud Creek, 1876
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Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, 1876
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Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
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Skirmish at Tongue River Heights, MT, 1876
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Skirmish at War Bonnet Creek, MT, 1876
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Gilded Age, 1877-1899
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Great Railroad Strike, 1877
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Lame Deer Fight, MT, 1877
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Nez Perce War, 1877
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Bannock Indian War, 1878
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Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
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Geronimo Campaign, 1882-1886
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Charleston, SC Earthquake, 1886
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Geronimo Surrenders to U.S. Army, AZ, 1886
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Great Southwest Railroad Strike, 1886-1889
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Haymarket Incident, 1886
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Geary Act, 1892
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Homestead Steel Strike, PA, 1892
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World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
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Armenian Massacre, 1894-1896
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Pullman Rail Strike, 1894
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Cuban War of Independence, 1895-1898
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Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
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Battle of Manila, 1898
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Battle of Puerto Rico, 1898
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Battle of San Juan Hill, 1898
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Battle of Santiago, 1898
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Battleship Maine Sunk, 1898
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Spanish-American War, 1898
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Treaty of Paris, 1898
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Boer War, 1899-1902
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Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
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Progressive Era, 1900-1918
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Robert Charles Riots, 1900
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Russia Contemporary History, 1900-
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National Coal Strike, 1902
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Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Panic of 1907, 1907
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Second Punic War, -229
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Pendleton Civil Service Act Passed, January 16, 1883
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